{"id":1094,"date":"2020-09-14T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/185.160.66.110\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:54:46","slug":"why-we-are-certifying-safer-hand-sanitizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/why-we-are-certifying-safer-hand-sanitizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We&#8217;re Certifying Safer Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Green Seal is now certifying hand sanitizers that meet the highest standard for safety and performance in the marketplace.<br><br>With the COVID-19 pandemic spurring many first-time producers to enter the market, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/public4.pagefreezer.com\/browse\/FDA\/17-01-2024T13:42\/https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/consumers\/consumer-updates\/your-hand-sanitizer-fdas-list-products-you-should-not-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FDA has warned consumers to avoid hundreds of hand sanitizers<\/a>&nbsp;because of high levels of hazardous ingredients including methanol (wood alcohol) and the contaminant 1-propanol.&nbsp; Meanwhile, even when properly formulated, hand sanitizers can include hazardous ingredients linked to cancer, allergies, and skin and eye irritation \u2013 even if they have an ecolabel.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our new certification program, Green Seal is providing consumers, purchasers and facility managers a simple way to identify hand sanitizers that meet the highest standard for health, safety and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Highest Standard of Clean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formulating with healthier ingredients is vital for a product that people apply to their skin dozens of times a day. Our new certification&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/standards\/gs-41-hand-cleaners-and-hand-sanitizers-for-industrial-and-institutional-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">standard<\/a>, created with input from public health and industry experts, screens 100% of alcohol-based hand sanitizer product formulas for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>carcinogens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reproductive toxins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>skin irritants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>phthalates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>parabens, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>contaminants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And as always, consumers can be confident that Green Seal-certified products meet uncompromising performance standards, do not pollute waterways, and use environmentally preferable packaging materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"verification-by-a-trusted-authority\">Verification By a Trusted Authority&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Our new hand sanitizer certification program is part of our commitment to leverage our expertise in healthy and sustainable cleaning and facility care to help protect people from both COVID-19 and negative health impacts from toxic chemicals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Green Seal&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/programs\/disinfecting-guideline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guidelines for Safer Cleaning and Disinfection<\/a>&nbsp;for schools and workplaces have been adopted by commercial cleaning companies servicing more than 1 billion square feet of space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We&#8217;ve&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanlink.com\/news\/article\/SEIU-Green-Seal-Partner-To-Provide-COVID-19-Training--25885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partnered with SEIU 32BJ<\/a>, the largest union of property service workers in the U.S., on COVID-19 training for its members.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>More than 30,000&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/certified-products-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Green Seal certified products<\/a>&nbsp;are used in offices, schools and homes each day, including cleaning products and hand soaps critical to de-contaminating buildings and protecting people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Green Seal certification for hand sanitizers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/categories\/hand-sanitizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now certifying hand sanitizers that meet the highest standard for safety and performance in the marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[38,39,27,34,37],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-green-seal-notice","category-science-based-standards","tag-asthma","tag-covid-19","tag-disinfecting","tag-hand-sanitizers","tag-human-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenseal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}